Research Article
The Influences of Health Insurance and Access to Information on Prostate Cancer Screening among Men in Dominican Republic
Table 2
Bivariate associations between independent variables and prostate cancer screening.
| Prostate cancer testing | OR (95% confidence interval) |
| Health insurance (ref: no) | | Yes | 2.12 (1.784–2.512) | Cholesterol knowledge (ref: no) | 1.00 | Yes | 4.20 (3.293–5.359) | Smokes cigarettes (ref: no) | 1.00 | Yes | 0.45 (0.354–0.580) | Received information on prostate cancer prevention (ref: no) | 1.00 | Yes | 1.38 (1.175–1.623) | Education (ref: none) | 1.00 | Primary | 2.02 (1.427–2.863) | Secondary | 2.79 (1.923–4.016) | Tertiary and higher | 7.27 (4.774–10.536) | Listen to radio (ref: none) | 1.00 | Often | 1.27 (0.864–1.87) | Very often | 1.56 (1.106–2.187) | Watch television (ref: none) | 1.00 | Often | 1.48 (0.937–2.367) | Very often | 1.97 (1.295–2.941) | Age of respondent (ref: 40–44) | 1.00 | 45–49 | 1.88 (1.497–2.364) | 50–54 | 2.73 (2.159–3.455) | 55–60 | 4.32 (3.403–5.508) | Marital status (ref: never married) | 1.00 | Married | 4.89 (3.011–7.956) | Separated | 2.71 (1.626–4.499) | Religion (ref: Catholic) | 1.00 | Other Christians | 0.94 (0.752–1.176) | No religion | 0.69 (0.572–0.838) | Region of residence (ref: 0) | 1.00 | I | 1.07 (0.742–1.535) | II | 1.29 (0.908–1.821) | III | 1.28 (0.904–1.838) | IV | 0.64 (0.429–0.957) | V | 0.87 (0.606–1.262) | VI | 0.85 (0.588–1.231) | VII | 1.18 (0.825–1.694) | VIII | 0.95 (0.667–1.367) | Place of residence (ref: urban) | 1.00 | Rural | 0.76 (0.625–0.923) | Wealth (ref: poorer) | 1.00 | Poor | 1.39 (1.069–1.808) | Middle | 2.19 (1.700–2.817) | Richer | 3.49 (2.708–4.498) | Richest | 6.41 (4.918–8.346) |
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Standard errors in parentheses , .
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